The following reply was made to PR pkg/38703; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/38703: net/nagios-plugins fails on Linux because bin/dig is
not found
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:23:26 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 20 May 2008, cheusov%tut.by@localhost wrote:
> This happens because Debian "base system" doesn't provide bin/dig executable.
> It is provided by net/bind9 package.
> What about separating bin/dig into a separate package and
> adding missed dependancy (net/nagios-plugins depends on net/dig)?
Probably should first fix package to install the plugins regardless
and add a MESSAGE about it. There are several plugins that have
prerequisites not installed.
dig in separate package seems fine too. But that means we also want to
install libbind9, libdns, liblwres, libisccfg, libisccc, and libisc.
(Maybe one package or several.)